British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday he should
have handled scrutiny of his family's tax arrangements better and
promised to learn the lessons after days of negative media
coverage and calls for his resignation.

After four days and four different statements over his late
father's inclusion in the "Panama Papers", Cameron said on
Thursday he once had a stake in his father's offshore trust and
had profited from it, spurring calls for the leader to resign.

"Well, it's not been a great week," Cameron said on Saturday,
speaking in London at a meeting of members of his Conservative
Party. "I know that I should have handled this better, I could
have handled this better. I know there are lessons to learn and I
will learn them."

"I was obviously very angry about what people were saying
about my dad. I loved my dad, I miss him every day.

"He was a wonderful father and I'm very proud of everything he
did. But I mustn't let that cloud the picture. The facts are
these: I bought shares in a unit trust, shares that are like any
other sorts of shares and I paid taxes on them in exactly the
same way.

"I sold those shares. In fact, I sold all the shares that I
owned, on becoming prime minister."

Activists held a demonstration in Central London on Saturday in
protest against the Prime Minister's tax arrangements.

Cameron has promised to be more transparent in future, saying
that he will be sharing his tax returns going forward.

"And later on I will be publishing the information that goes into
my tax return, not just for this year but the years gone past
because I want to be completely open and transparent about these
things," said Cameron.

"I will be the first prime minister, the first leader of a major
political party, to do that and I think it is the right thing to
do."